Does the accident analysis include “worst case” fires?
Worse case fires occur under “worst conditions”, which are when the amount of toxic material in a warehouse is at its maximum level, when the fire starts in the in the most toxic substances and when the heat lost from the smoke plume is a maximum. An analysis based on an average inventory taking no account of the location of the seat of the fire may be overly optimistic, unless the smoke is assumed to disperse passively.
